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Date posted: 24/06/2010 The live train map for the London Underground is a nearly real-time Google Maps mashup that shows the various trains of the London Underground as they move about their subterranean travels. The real-time Web, put simply, is a set of technologies that allows the information we see on the Internet to change as quickly (or nearly so) as what it represents in the real world or online. It's the weather forecast, your friends' status updates on Facebook and the pitch-by-pitch tracking of an afternoon's game. As for the Internet of Things, it is the connection of the Internet to everyday objects. In this case, it's data on every train in the London subway system as provided by the London Data Store, an open-data effort with the Greater London Authority. The train map, created by Matthew Somerville, takes data from the Transport for London API and plots it out on a Google Map. On it, yellow pinpoints represent train stations, and the plethora of slowly moving red pinpoints represent an army of trains. Clicking on a red pin identifies which train you're looking at, the station it just left and where and when it is expected to arrive. See the full Story via external site: www.readwriteweb.com Most recent stories in this category (Sensors): 22/05/2013: New study finds blind people have the potential to u se their ‘inner bat’ to locate objects |
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